On May 20, 2008, at 4:50 AM, Ståle Askerød Johansen wrote: > > > Hello, oh thou sweet fountain of problem-solving knowledge :-) > > Here at the University of Oslo we are running Natios to monitor > roughly 10k services out of which ~9500 are active. We also monitor > ~700 hosts. We are running nagios 3.0.1 on a Dell 2850 with 4 Gb of > RAM. > And 4 kernels. We upgraded from 2.9 roughly a month ago. > > We have the following problem, and are turning here for help after > fumbling in darkness for some time: The latency of both host checks > and service checks increase over time. > > After a stop/start of nagios, we see the following pattern: > > 1) The service latency starts of at ~2.8 seconds, which we are happy > with. It increases with about 1 ms per minute, a rough estimate. > 2) The nagios process starts off at about 17m resident, shown in > "top". > 3) The "system" part of cpu usage starts off at ~30%
I seem to recall this being related to using the embedded perl interpreter. Did you compile nagios with ePN? Try without it if you did. -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null